Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

Everything changes but change.

Zangwill, Israel

It's only the view from where you sit that makes you feel defeat. Life is full of many aisles, so why don't you change your seat?

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Carlyle, Thomas

One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

Sher, Barbara

10.

A rolling stone can gather no moss.

Syrus, Publilius

11.

Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

13.

Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

14.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Tracy, Brian

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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Force never moves in a straight line, but always in a curve vast as the universe, and therefore eventually returns whence it issued forth, but upon a higher arc, for the universe has progressed since it started.

Kabbalah

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There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.

Irving, Washington

18.

The only people who like change are wet babies.

19.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. Fear and resentment of what is new is really a lament for the memories of our childhood.

Medawar, Sir Peter

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The moment of change is the only poem.

Rich, Adrienne

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Change and growth take place when a person has risked himself and dares to become involved with experimenting with his own life.

Otto, Herbert A.

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

31.

The longer you stay in one place, the greater your chances of disillusionment.

Spander, Art

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Give wind and tide a chance to change.

Byrd, Richard E.

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Dickens, Charles

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For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.

Cary, Joyce

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

Buffett, Warren

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us. Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own. The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all. Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.

Zambucka, Kirsten

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Change is inevitable-except from a vending machine.

Gallagher, Robert C.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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To change and change for the better are two different things